A/N: So in this chapter, everyone is looking for a cure for Caroline's bite and we find out a little piece of that puzzle towards the end of the chapter ;) There's also a cute little Damon/Caroline moment in the beginning and we see a little more of the over protective Stefan when he's having a chat with Jules to try to figure out the cure. xoxo, Avril

Chapter Eleven: I Can Feel Us Slip Away

Caroline woke up when she heard someone there in her room, moving things around, it sounded like they were really looking for something. She slowly forced her eyes open and saw Damon moving all around her room, looking in every possible drawer in the room.

"Damon, what are you doing?" Caroline asked, her voice weak and now realizing she had a huge gauze pad medically taped onto her shoulder.

"Well, don't you sound wonderful?" Damon asked sarcastically, but he didn't have his trademark grin on. Instead he looked more concerned than anything else. "If you must know, I'm looking for the wolfsbane Stefan his in here." Damon said and opened up Caroline's nightstand drawer and found it. "And here it is. You need more blood while I'm down there Blondie?" Damon asked, noticing Caroline's empty glass and Caroline silently nodded. "Coming right up." Damon said as he walked out of her room with her glass in hand.

When Damon left the room, Caroline tried to stand up out of bed. She was a little off balance at first, but quickly regained it after a second. Caroline slowly made her way over to the bathroom and the first thing she did was see how bad she looked in the mirror. She slowly peeled the bandage off and saw the bite. Though it was healed last night, now it looked worse than it was when she had gotten bitten already. It was red and bleeding again, not to mention that it was sore to the touch. She heard Damon walk back into the room behind her, but she ignored it and kept looking at the bite. Damon silently walked into the bathroom and right over to the closet that was in there, walking back over to Caroline and putting new gauze on there.

"Thanks." Caroline said quietly and Damon just nodded. Caroline watched him for a minute until she finally got up the nerve to just ask him the question. "Why do you always have this…guilty look on your face when you're around me?"

"…Long story." Damon simply said.

"Come on, Damon." Caroline said and turned around to face him now. "I have no memory of the past few months AND now I have a wolf bite that could possibly kill me. What does a girl have to do around here to get a straight answer?" Caroline huffed.

"Fine." Damon sighed "About maybe…7 months ago, when Stefan and I first came into town, I…I used you basically for sex and blood and I compelled you a lot to make you forget that but, you started to remember it when you were changed." Damon stated and looked at Caroline's face for a reaction, but continued when he saw she looked calm. "After that stopped, months went on and I was falling for Elena…who was dating Stefan. You and Stefan kissed a few times after you changed, I told Elena, mostly as a way to break her and Stefan up, and it worked. They broke up. Me and Elena got closer and you and Stefan started dating almost right away. Then…I don't know what the hell went wrong, but I guess since Elena wasn't over Stefan all the way, I started to have feelings for you. I still really don't know if they were real feelings or just a way for me to get back at Elena because I was jealous, but I kissed you. Me and Stefan ended up fighting about that and when Stefan least expected it, I locked him up in the basement and lied to you…saying that he just left town. And it broke your heart into pieces, I mean, you barely wanted to get up in the morning, and it started to break my heart too. So one day, me and you were getting ready to go out somewhere, really can't remember where, and you went into the basement to get blood and you saw Stefan there, locked up. You hated my guts before you lost your memory…and I really don't blame you for that. Hell, I don't blame you if you never forgive me for half the shit I've done to you." Damon said

"…Damon." Caroline said, absorbing the story and saw in his eyes that it was all the truth. "Just to let you know, memory or not right now, I forgive you, for everything." Caroline said with a small smile. Seeing Damon frozen in shock, she took that chance and quickly hugged Damon, and slowly, Damon hugged her back.

After Caroline let go, Damon still showed no real sign of emotion other than shock, but Caroline knew that he probably felt a little better now after letting all of that out, she could see the relief in his eyes.

"I brought you blood up here." Damon said, finally breaking the silence and point at the glass on her nightstand in the bedroom.

"Thanks." Caroline said.

"If you need anything else, call for Jeremy, he's downstairs and as of now, officially on Caroline duty." Damon said.

"Where are you and Stefan?" Caroline asked curiously.

"…Taking care of…an old friend of ours downstairs." Damon said with a smirk. "Don't worry about it. Just…yell for Gilbert if you need him, okay?"

"Okay." Caroline sighed.

Damon walked out of the room and Caroline walked back off to bed and drank the blood. She wondered if it helped the bite any, but judging from how much it still hurt, it wasn't helping all that much. Finally deciding that there was nothing else she could really do, she just got comfy in bed, closed her eyes, and tried to go back to sleep.

Damon walked downstairs and stopped in the doorway of the cell where they were holding Jules. Stefan had her pretty well tied up and he saw a hew burns on her skin already from her trying to move out of the chair probably.

"I told you," Jules said through gritted teeth. "The only cure for you little girlfriend is a nice stake thorough the heart before she turns into a rabid vampire and starts tearing everything with a pulse to shreds."

Stefan sprayed her with the bottle that was filled with wolfsbane and she hissed out in pain. Stefan wanted to believe that she was lying, but it had been tow hours of non-stop torturing now and her answer stayed the same, no cure.

"There has to be-"

"There ISN'T." Jules hissed. "What so you want me to do? Magically pull a cure out of my ass? Trust me buddy, after two weeks of dealing with that bite, sweet little Caroline will be begging for you to kill her."

Stefan sprayed her again and this time, Damon stepped in and held Stefan down, seeing the anger building up in him.

"Let's take a break for now okay?" Damon asked. "Look, I hate her and this whole situation too, but killing her won't help Caroline. Let's just go cool off, you can check on Caroline, alright?"

Stefan nodded and got up off the chair he was in and walked out of the room. Damon stayed behind and turned to face Jules now.

"Is there really no cure?" Damon asked calmly, seeing if being somewhat nice to her would get them somewhere.

"…There was one." Jules sighed.

"Was?" Damon asked.

"I don't remember it, I swear." Jules said. "All I know is that whoever bit the vampire would have to be the one to fix them up."

"But you don't know how?" Damon asked

"Nope." Jules said. "So you're either going to have to find a werewolf that remembers or someone who actually wrote it down."

"And where would we find either one of those?" Damon asked

"Well…Mason knew, he might have written it down somewhere but I have no idea. I know he told Katherine the cure." Jules said.

"Trying to avoid that bitch, different option." Damon said.

"Maybe a witch?" Jules said.

"A witch with old ties to this town?" Damon asked

"Maybe." Jules said.

"I think I know where to start then." Damon said, walking out of the room and pulling the door shut behind him.

Stefan quietly walked into Caroline's room and saw her sleeping. He couldn't help but smile a little bit, seeing how peaceful she looked, even with everything going on. He thought about laying there next to her for a second, but instead he saw her empty glass of blood there on the nightstand, picked it up, and walked back downstairs to see Jeremy and Damon in the living room, Jeremy was on the phone and Damon was listening closely.

"I got an answer from- Whoa, wait." Damon said noticing the glass. "Empty again?"

"I lost count of how many this is." Stefan sighed.

"Well, since last night, I'm pretty sure that's 22." Damon said.

"She's getting worse, isn't she?" Stefan asked.

"There's no need to worry anymore, I think I got an answer from Jules." Damon said. "Gilbert is talking to Bonnie now. She might have the answer."

"Alright, well let's go-"

"You sire you wanna go?" Damon asked.

"Yeah, Jeremy can watch Caroline, she's fast asleep." Stefan said. "Just let me bring more blood up to her and we'll go."

"Okay." Damon said.

Damon and Stefan had left about ten minutes ago and so far, Caroline was still quiet for Jeremy. Everything was still good, except when Jeremy heard a loud noise upstairs that sounded like something hitting the floor and smashing into a million pieces. Jeremy ran upstairs as fast as he could and burst into Caroline's room and saw Caroline's glass that she had been using for her blood, smashed on the ground in the middle of the room.

"CAROLINE!" Jeremy yelled.

There was no response back and Jeremy ran into the bathroom and saw Caroline coughing up blood into the sink and he noticed that she also ripped off the gauze that was on her shoulder and the bite was worse than before.

"Caroline, it's okay." Jeremy said calmly and rested a hand gently on her back.

Caroline turned around to face him with her fangs out and she pushed Jeremy up against the wall.

"Caroline! It's me! Jeremy!" Jeremy shouted to her.

That seemed to snap Caroline out of it, she blinked a few times and retracted her gangs and stared at Jeremy now, confused.

"Jeremy?" She asked weakly and started coughing again.

Jeremy grabbed her arm and led her back over to the sink and she coughed up more blood. After a few minutes, she stopped coughing, Jeremy cleaned the blood off her mouth and out of the sink and brought her back to bed.

"I think I'll stay up here with you for now." Jeremy sighed and started cleaning up the broken glass on the floor now.

"I'm sorry Jer." Caroline said.

"It's fine…your just a little sick right now, you'll get better." Jeremy said hopefully. "You need anymore blood?"

Caroline didn't answer again and Jeremy turned around to see her standing right behind, with her fangs back out and her staring at his neck. Before Jeremy could even get a word out, Caroline sank her teeth into Jeremy's neck and started drinking. Caroline snapped out of it a few minutes later and she finally realized just what she was doing a little too late. She heard Jeremy's pulse getting weaker and weaker, and in a panic, she grabbed Jeremy and gently laid him down on her bed, not caring about his blood getting all over the pillows and sheet on the bed at the moment. Caroline quickly checked Jeremy's hand for the ring and let out a sigh of relief when she saw that it was still there.

"I'm sorry Jeremy." Caroline said, trying to hold back tears. She knew that he would be okay, but she still felt guilty for biting him.

Jeremy didn't say anything. He just squeezed Caroline's hand and closed his eyes. Caroline had no idea how long it would take for Jeremy to wake back up, but she knew it would be a while. While waiting for Jeremy, Caroline let go of his hand and walked into the bathroom. She felt normal for the first time today, like she was never bitten. She looked in the mirror and saw that she looked like her normal self, and the bite looked practically gone!

"…What the hell?" Caroline asked out loud as she continued looking more closely at her bite.

Not only did she look a million times better and the bite almost completely healed, but she didn't feel like she was about to cough up blood, or like she hadn't had blood in 2 years. She felt like normal, vampire Caroline Forbes. Caroline looked at Jeremy from the mirror in the bathroom, she wondered if drinking his blood had anything to do with it while she cleaned Jeremy's blood from off her mouth. She would tell Stefan and Damon about that later when they got back home, but for now, she went to the closet in the bathroom where Damon got the gauze for her earlier. Caroline walked over to Jeremy and started covering up her bite on his neck. She knew when he would wake up that it would be healed, but she wanted to do it anyway, at least to keep him from bleeding out anymore so hopefully he would wake up a little faster. Caroline knew that when Jeremy woke up that she would owe him a huge apology for this.